§ Mr. Goldingasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those 452W industrial training boards whose grants from the Manpower Services Commission will be cut, together with the amounts of each individual cut.
§ Mr. Jim Lester,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 13 July 1979; Vol. 970, c. 324], gave the following answer:
I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that compared with the provisional offers of MSC funds which were made to the industrial training boards earlier this year, the cash limits which have now been imposed represent the following reductions:
£m Air Transport 0.022 Carpet 0.023 Ceramics 0.270 Chemicals 0.430 Clothing 0.163 Construction 1.721 Cotton 0.110 Distributive 0.240 Engineering (Main) 2.298 Engineering (MEECI) 0.084 Food, Drink 0.052 Footwear 0.066 Foundry 0.187 Furniture 0.326 Hotel and Catering 0.352 Iron and Steel 0.125 Knitting 0.101 Man-made Fibre 0.082 Paper 0.056 Petroleum 0.135 Printing 0.306 Road Transport 0.041 Rubber and Plastics 0.015 Shipbuilding 0.271 Wool, Jute and Flax 0.057